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Every UK Christmas #1: the song at the top in Christmas week

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The latest UK Christmas #1, in 2025, was “Xmas” by Kylie Minogue.

15 of the 74 were Christmas songs; the rest were simply the biggest song of the week.

Most Christmas #1s

Every UK Christmas #1: the song at the top in Christmas week
YearSongArtist
2025XmasChristmas songKylie Minogue
2024Last ChristmasChristmas songWham!
2023Last ChristmasChristmas songWham!
2022Food AidLadbaby
2021Sausage Rolls for EveryoneLadbaby feat. Sheeran & Elton John
2020Don't Stop Me EatinLadbaby
2019I Love Sausage RollsLadbaby
2018We Built This CityLadbaby
2017PerfectEd Sheeran
2016RockabyeClean Bandit
2015A Bridge Over YouLewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir
2014Something I NeedBen Haenow
2013SkyscraperSam Bailey
2012He Ain't Heavy He's My BrotherJustice Collective
2011Wherever You AreMilitary Wives & Gareth Malone
2010When We CollideMatt Cardle
2009Killing in the NameRage Against The Machine
2008HallelujahAlexandra Burke
2007When You BelieveLeon Jackson
2006A Moment Like ThisLeona Lewis
2005That's My GoalShayne Ward
2004Do They Know It's ChristmasChristmas songBand Aid 20
2003Mad WorldMichael Andrews feat. Gary Jules
2002Sound of the UndergroundGirls Aloud
2001Somethin' StupidRobbie Williams & Nicole Kidman
2000Can We Fix ItBob the Builder
1999I Have a Dream/Seasons in the SunWestlife
1998GoodbyeSpice Girls
1997Too MuchSpice Girls
1996RE2 Become 1Spice Girls
1995Earth SongMichael Jackson
1994Stay Another DayEast 17
1993Mr. BlobbyMr. Blobby
1992I Will Always Love YouWhitney Houston
1991Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are the Days of Our LivesQueen
1990Saviour's DayChristmas songCliff Richard
1989Do They Know It's Christmas?Christmas songBand Aid II
1988Mistletoe and WineChristmas songCliff Richard
1987Always On My MindPet Shop Boys
1986Reet Petite {1986}Jackie Wilson
1985Merry Christmas EveryoneChristmas songShakin' Stevens
1984Do They Know It's Christmas?Christmas songBand-Aid
1983Only YouThe Flying Pickets
1982Save Your LoveRenee and Renato
1981Don't You Want MeThe Human League
1980There's No One Quite Like GrandmaSt. Winifred's School Choir
1979Another Brick in the WallPink Floyd
1978Mary's Boy ChildChristmas songBoney M
1977Mull of Kintyre/Girls' SchoolWings
1976When a Child Is BornChristmas songJohnny Mathis
1975Bohemian RhapsodyQueen
1974Lonely This ChristmasChristmas songMud
1973Merry Xmas EverybodyChristmas songSlade
1972Long Haired Lover from LiverpoolLittle Jimmy Osmond
1971Ernie (the Fastest Milkman in the West)Benny Hill
1970I Hear You KnockingDave Edmunds
1969Two Little BoysRolf Harris
1968Lily the PinkThe Scaffold
1967Hello GoodbyeThe Beatles
1966Green, Green Grass Of HomeTom Jones
1965Day Tripper/We Can Work It OutThe Beatles
1964I Feel FineThe Beatles
1963I Want To Hold Your HandThe Beatles
1962Return to SenderElvis Presley
1961Moon RiverDanny Williams
1960I Love YouCliff Richard
1959What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?Emile Ford and the Checkmates
1958It's Only Make BelieveConway Twitty
1957Mary's Boy ChildChristmas songHarry Belafonte
1956Just Walkin' in the RainJohnnie Ray
1955Christmas AlphabetChristmas songDickie Valentine
1954Let's Have Another PartyWinifred Atwell
1953Answer MeFrankie Laine
1952Here In My HeartAl Martino

How is this counted?

The #1 of the chart published in Christmas week each year, whatever the song: a Christmas #1 is the week's biggest song, not necessarily a Christmas song. Until 1961 the chart archive dates a chart by the end of its week, so Christmas week's chart is the one dated from 26 December; from 1962 it is the one dated 19 to 25 December.

Every week of the UK Singles Chart to Sep 18, 2026. About the data

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